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Google suffered a meltdown as Gmail, Maps and YouTube went down

No, it’s not just you: Google appears to be suffering a massive meltdown. Numerous users are flocking to report experiencing issues using its services, including Maps, Search, Gmail, Drive and YouTube.

Both DownDetector and Outage Report are indicating that the company is struggling with server downtime across the board.

As of now, it remains unclear what is causing the outage, but we have reached out to the Big G and will update this post accordingly if we hear back.

Update: Meanwhile, it appears that Google is not the only company experiencing downtime. Amazon Web Services and GitHub are also seemingly struggling with technical difficulties at the moment – though we’re not certain whether the events are connected.

Update 2: According to posters on Hacker News, the outage is so bad that, if you load Search without caching, the Google logo won’t even show. Now this is what I call a rare occurrence.